Baytown TX PD

Transparency Portal

Last Updated: Thu Oct 03 2024
Overview
Baytown TX PD uses Flock Safety technology to capture objective evidence without compromising on individual privacy. Baytown TX PD utilizes retroactive search to solve crimes after they've occurred. Additionally, Baytown TX PD utilizes real time alerting of hotlist vehicles to capture wanted criminals. In an effort to ensure proper usage and guardrails are in place, they have made the below policies and usage statistics available to the public.
Policies
What's Detected
License Plates, Vehicles
What's Not Detected
Facial recognition, People, Gender, Race
Acceptable Use Policy
Data is used for law enforcement purposes only. Data is owned by Baytown TX PD and is never sold to 3rd parties.
Prohibited Uses
Immigration enforcement, traffic enforcement, harassment or intimidation, usage based solely on a protected class (i.e. race, sex, religion), Personal use.
Access Policy
All system access requires a valid reason and is stored indefinitely.
Hotlist Policy
Hotlist hits are required to be human verified prior to action.
Usage
Data retention (in days)
30 days
Number of owned cameras
72
Hotlists Alerted On
NCIC, NCMEC Amber Alert
Vehicles detected in the last 30 days
515,337
Searches in the last 30 days
701
Hotlist hits in the last 30 days
3,314